Monday Tzom Gedalya 5787 News Updates Lakewood

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Puting  up sukka weather this week is clear. Next week is called for rain from Erev Yom Kippur through the first days of Sukkos with a rainstorm in forecast for first days.

Fast is over 50 minute zman 7:57

Tzom Gedaliah, observed on 3 Tishrei, day after Rosh Hashana, commemorates the murder of Gedaliah ben Achikam, whom Nevuchadnetzar appointed as governor over the Jewish remnant in Eretz Yisroel after the churban of the First Beis Hamikdash. Yishmael ben Netanyah murdered Gedaliah and many others, causing the remaining Jews to flee to Egypt. His death brought an end to the last remnants of Jewish settlement and independence in Eretz Yisroel after the Churban. Chazal established the fast to commemorate this tragedy and its devastating consequences.

- Tefilos for  the Vizhnitz rebbe Reb Srultche  shlita from Bnei Brak who will be undergoing a medical procedure tomorrow morning to install a pacemaker, name is Yisroel ben Leah Esther.

- The Supreme Court today has refused to let USPS’s new mail-ballot rules take effect for the 2026 midterms. Justices Alito and Thomas dissent. Ina 7-2 Ruling. The case is still open.

- Trump asked Rabbonim about Rubashkin  More details of Admorim meeting with President Trump at the White house

- Ami Magazine reports  on a conversation between President Trump and the Rebbes in the Oval Office before Rosh Hashanah.

"You guys are funny," Trump told the Rabbonim. "I send B-2 bombers to Iran, I bombed them to smithereens. If I wouldn’t have bombed them, they would have wiped out Israel, but I don't get a thank you. But I pardoned this butcher from Iowa - he has some kind of funny name - and everybody is happy."

"Rubashkin," someone promoted him.

"Yeah, Lubashkin [sic]. Is the guy still alive?" the President responded. 

The attendees assured him that Reb Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin is doing fine, to which Reb Yoel Rosenfeld (an askan who accompanied the Bobover Rebbe) added, "Mr President, I want to tell you there was dancing in the streets of Brooklyn when this happened."

Trump replied classically, "Brooklyn? I got 94% of the vote in your areas." 

He then shifted back to the Rubashkin case.

"That was total antisemitism. I called the prosecutor and asked, 'Why'd you give this person 28 years? He had some illegal immigrants, but who doesn't have? You get a fine, not 28 years.' The prosecutor said, 'he deserved much more.' I told him, 'You're an anti-Semite. I'm pardoning him."

Source: Ami Magazine issue 784.

- Peta activists were at kaparos locations today around Lakewood with signs about animal cruelty and to use coins and not live chicken. On social media too there the usual buzz 

- Trump: I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax — That AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will be marching into our Cities, and getting rid of us all! This is even wilder than the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX, or the Global Warming Scam. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

- Jackson mayor receives 'disgusting' messages; cops investigating APP reports In recent months, someone has wished Jackson Mayor Jennifer Kuhn dead, compared her to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a Nazi in the same breath, and has advised her to leave the country with her family.

- Kaporos today at Bingo $5 a chicken  at 1pm

-Tat כפרות  3 locations at Bais Aharon, Ateres Reva and Neemas hachaim parking lot from  2pm- 7pm  $8.50 a chicken

- Yeshiva Ner Yisroel of Baltimore will have a  alumni event  with divrei Hisorerus by Rav Nochum Lansky shlita at the Square 3rd and Clifton Lakewood  7:15 pm followed by Maaeiv and light refreshments 

- LDC virtual meeting today 4:30pm

-There's ben renewed ICE activity in Lakewood with some arrests over the last few days

- Daled Minim shuk at Bais Faiga today

- At the BOE meeting last Wednesday The Lakewood school board voted to extend hazardous busing to private schools, the state monitor blocked it. School attorney warns it could bring lawsuits. The BOE did not day who will pay for the 14 million dollars in funding

- Trump lashes out at 'sick conspiracy' against AI and data centers, warns 'Conspiracy Theorists, Treasonists, Traitors, and Leakers after  a report of A sudden burst of warnings about the potentially catastrophic dangers of artificial intelligence  coming from Barack Obama, Democratic lawmakers and some of the most powerful figures in the AI industry just as the 2026 midterm campaign enters its final stretch  is drawing questions about whether an emerging technology debate is becoming a coordinated political issue.

- Americans are expected to pay more for coverage in 2027 as hospital, doctor and drug costs rise. Employer health-benefit costs are projected to jump 8.2%, the biggest increase in 13 years.

- A Red Bank man an illegal immigrant has been sentenced to a combined 20 years in New Jersey State Prison for a horrific 2025 crash in Lakewood that claimed the lives of a 42-year-old woman and an 11-year-old girl. He had a previous DWI arrest. The Whitehouse previously used this case to highlight what happens in sanctuary states that don't allow cooperation between local authorities and ICE.

- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Memorial Event Canceled: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s position to the religious ministry to cancel a major memorial event because of its proximity to the election. Baharav-Miara had recommended holding it afterward due to concerns that it could serve as Shas election propaganda.

- BDE: Petirah of Rav Moahe Riegler Z"L of Brooklyn/Lakewood Enclave community. Levaya in Boro Park 1:00pm at Bobov 45 Bais Medrash at 49th st.

- BDE: Petirah of R Yosef Dovid Schur Z"L from Chicago/Lakewood a talmid of Rav Aharon Kotler ZTL. He lived in a Country place in Lakewood. Levaya and Kevura in Eretz Yisrael.

- BDE: Petirah of Rav Chaim Tzvi Ehrenreich zt”l, of Williamsburg, Gaavad of Shamloi and mechaber of aefer Maayan Yeshuah, who was niftar on the second day of Rosh Hashanah He was 94.

- Trump: I hope everyone realizes that price increases throughout America were caused by Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, not by “TRUMP.” Even Oil was higher under Biden than it is right now, and we prevented Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon! With the temporary exception of Oil, prices are coming down sharply, and Oil will drop like a rock as soon as the Military Conflict with Iran is over, and that will not be long. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

- In Lakewood thousands davened in BMG minayim,  this year Rav Shneur Kotler shlita ben Rav Malkiel shlita davened for the amud in the new Minyan at Princeton BM. Several new balai tefilah were introduced to serve as shliach tzibbur.

Trump: The $5,000 Trump Dividend, to be given to all Adults in the United States due to the fact that our Country is taking in Trillions of Dollars of Economic Development, Investment, and Pure SUCCESS, is being criticized by “Dumocrats” who are hoping that it never happens — But it will! As an example, the Dumocrats said THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL, one of the largest ever approved by Congress, or signed into Law by a President happened, despite the Dumocrats saying it would be impossible to get approved — Or the Gift of $1776 that I gave last year to our Military, was an almost guaranteed Non Starter, everyone said it could not be done, but it was, our Military Patriots got the money, and loved it. When I say something, I mean it! The $5,000 Dividend will happen because the People of our Country deserve it. VOTE REPUBLICAN — MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP